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We went to Peg's for breakfast this morning. It's been voted the best breakfast place for 10 years in a row. Delicious vegetarian eggs Benny. We drove to Lake Tahoe today to have a look around. I think it's been about 15 years since we have been there. The last time was with Susan and Dennis. The lake looks nice it's pretty quiet this time of year. Checked out the Atlantis casino when we got back ...

... there. We continued on to lake Tahoe, where we had plans of camping over night. We found our camping area and they had closed for the season. So we were thrown into kaos. We drove further down the road and found another campsite. It was really cool, across the road from the lake, you could hear the water splashing up on the shoreline. So we set up camp, lit a great fir, cooked up some snags and enjoyed a an evening, almost, by the waters ...

... to ask four different people for help, another hour of doing what seemed to feel like the French funniest home videos of Americans, we arrived tovour hotel on a shuttle bus and checked in. After a quick beer and a snack we are now resting for our next leg tomorrow. To the train station we will go and head south to Saint Jean Pied De Port; our official start on the Camino De Santiago. Today's lesson : Patience and ...

... woke the kids up in a deep sleep. They were ready to go relatively quickly and off we set. We checked them in to ski school and waved them off with nervous smiles (all of us)... Then Pete and I got lost in our own world. We got our gear and a lesson which ended up being for the day. Luckily Pete is a patient man as I thought he was going to get frustrated as we were painstakingly told a lot of details about snow, skiing ...

After fastening the cap we took off. I felt good about it. Kara did not share in my comfort. After finishing the beautiful drive over Donner Pass, past Squaw and then up the Truckee we stopped at the Bridgetender where 89 splits off to North Lake Tahoe. The Bridgetender felt the same but different. Kara thought I was crazy but I have not lost all my marbles. About 10 years ago their lease was ...